Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.